The Experimental Plant Systems Biology Lab led by @drdevangm at @KU_Leuven studies plant chronobiology for climate adaptation.

Joined February 2022
🌅Delighted to share a paper that spanned the start of not one but TWO labs, now out in @ScienceAdvances. With @LabUhrig we discovered that plants sense the duration of TWILIGHT via their clock genes LHY/CCA1! A 🧵on what this really means: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adl31…
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🪴🦠 🍅 Delighted to announce new funding from @FWOVlaanderen to lead a Strategic Basic Research project worth EUR 1.7 million! VIROPROX builds on our expertise in interactomics & plant virology to find new non-insecticidal solutions to plant viruses in sugarbeet & tomato!
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🌱⏱️ A week until 90 plant circadian biologists from 18 countries arrive in Leuven for the first ever conference on Plant Chronobiology! Super excited to host everyone here for 2 days filled with groundbreaking science! Abstract book out now: plantclock.wixsite.com/2025
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!! INPPO 2025 Early Bird Registration Extended !! Due to request, we have extended the early bird deadline to March 7th 2025. Check out inppo2025.org/ to register today! Multiple travel awards available for trainees and abstract selected talks available for everyone!
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Please share: We're hiring up to FIVE Postdocs or PhD students for a number of #plantsci #proteomics #genomics projects between my lab and that of Hervé Vanderschuren at @KU_Leuven & @UniversiteLiege! Come join us in the land of 🍫 & 🍻 for some exciting science!
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🌱PCP sponsors the first-ever Plant Chronobiology Conference⏲️ in Leuven, Belgium on June 13th and 14th 2025. Registration is now open!
Excited to announce that registration is now open for Plant Chronobiology 2025, the first ever dedicated conference on plant circadian biology! Register now! plantclock.wixsite.com/2025
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🍾We're funded! Two @FWOVlaanderen grants (the max. allowed/lab) allowing us to deploy our proteomics toolkit to: 1️⃣ understand how viruses interact with insect vectors & plants 2️⃣ understand circadian clock gene regulation under changing environments! mehta-lab.com
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Scientists. Noticed it is quiet here? Everyone has gone where the sky is blue. If you haven't yet, move over to get the good stuff
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Excited to announce that registration is now open for Plant Chronobiology 2025, the first ever dedicated conference on plant circadian biology! Register now! plantclock.wixsite.com/2025
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Delighted to join the Scientific Organising Committee for #ICAR2025 in Ghent 🇧🇪 We invite you to participate by hosting one of 18 Concurrent Sessions or 8 Workshops! €1000 available to support organizer costs! Deadline October 21st 2024 More info at icar2025.com
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Looking forward to visiting @nyuniversity today and meeting fellow @CellAtlas colleagues and presenting our work @theMehtaLab. Talk’s at 3:30 pm in CGSB 805 if anyone wants to stop by :) Huge thanks to @shhuang1 for the invitation!
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📢CALL FOR REVIEWERS📢We´re expanding our reviewer community 🌍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/jour… 🌱Interested in joining? email [email protected] 🍀New to peer review? Wiley offers a free online course 👉wileyresearcheracademy.com/p… TPJ supports co-reviewing with senior mentor
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🚨An exciting update re. Plant Chronobiology 2025: Announcing our Keynote Speakers! We are looking forward to Keynotes by Rob McClung (@dartmouth) and Paloma Mas (@cragenomica), chaired by @DrSteveKay! RSVP below for more updates re. invited talks and our scientific program!
🚨Calling all🌱⏰scientists! We are delighted to announce that we will be hosting the first ever Plant Chronobiology Symposium next summer (June 13 & 14) at @KU_Leuven! Please RSVP here if you are interested in attending! plantclock.wixsite.com/2025
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Great to see our latest paper in @ScienceAdvances with @LabUhrig covered in @eos_wetenschap, a major Dutch-language science magazine!
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Happening now, career transition panel! #ICAR2024
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#ICAR2024 Dawn Nagel from UC Riverside is introducing the concurrent session on plant circadian rhythms with an overview of the biological clock and an announcement about the "first ever" plant chronobiology conference, June 2025 (adjacent to ICAR2025 in Belgium).
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🌅Delighted to share a paper that spanned the start of not one but TWO labs, now out in @ScienceAdvances. With @LabUhrig we discovered that plants sense the duration of TWILIGHT via their clock genes LHY/CCA1! A 🧵on what this really means: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adl31…
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In conventional #plantsci research, plants are often grown in controlled conditions where the lights are just switched on-off at the start and end of day. This is not how day-night transitions work in nature! Do plants care? Turns out, they really do!
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So nice to see data that many agronomists have known in observation but never tested with rigor - the character of light across a day, across the seasons of a year, have impacted the evolution of land plants in ways we have yet to measure. Exciting work!!!
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In conventional #plantsci research, plants are often grown in controlled conditions where the lights are just switched on-off at the start and end of day. This is not how day-night transitions work in nature! Do plants care? Turns out, they really do!
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